Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former state health care director tracked women’s menstrual periods in a spreadsheet. Today’s digital tech is just as intrusive.

Rumer Willis discusses women's hormone health, self-advocacy, and why better education and access to reproductive health ...

Medically reviewed by Andrea L. Braden, MD Key Takeaways The female reproductive system includes organs that produce hormones ...

Pregnancy-related mortality rates among Black women are over three and two times higher, respectively, compared to the rate for White women. Post-Roe v. Wade Black women in Southern states face ...

As the 2024 election season approaches, Black women are increasingly vocal about their health concerns and reproductive rights. With pressing issues such as the maternal mortality crisis and ...

For most women, the body begins to change dramatically in their 40s or 50s. This transition, known as menopause, is defined ...

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It was 2017 and Eva Marie Carney was fed up. As an elected legislator for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation she was somewhat familiar with the reproductive healthcare gap within Indigenous communities, ...

Under the 19th century system of coverture, married women’s legal identities were absorbed under their husbands’ rights, and, legally, they counted as “one person.” While coverture ended over 100 ...